-- our administration is doing right now, and it's actually not what mitt romney said he would do in the speech. what he said he would do is exactly what this administration is doing. we're working with the people in the region, trying to identify and organize the syrian political opposition. >> we're working, general clark, but we're providing communications and some non leathal assistance. and like -- clearly the action gets worse not better. so what we're providing has not mitigated this horrible prosecution by assad and his henchmen. what else can we do other than a couple phones? >> well, ashley, the work we're doing is not just providing communications. that's the start of this. what we're actually doing is trying to help build leadership because somebody has to be politically in charge of the people who are using the weapons. otherwise, you may as well just pull the ship up to the port, unload the weapons and hand them out on the street. these groups and the free syrian army, they don't all work together, they don't all cooperate, and we don't know under whose authority they'r